I’ve been a sucker for the Guild B series of basses since being a fan of Ali McMordie of SLF when I started playing.
Over the years I’ve owned two B301F fretless single pickup versions, one B301 a fretted one pickup, but the holy grail had always been a 302 or 402.
The 301/302 are passive and the 401/402 are actives. Without a suffix the basses are mahogany and with an ‘A’ suffix they are ash. A 402A is an active 2 pickup with ash neck and body.
I finally found and got hold of a B302 nearly 18 months ago, pictured below. I fell foul of cites regulations. I could have risked having posted without the certificates but having waited over 20 years to find one without a headstock repair I wasn’t prepared to do that. It took 502 days from purchase to having it in my hands. That was down to English and US processes and my procrastination.
Ironically the regs had been amended during this time and longer applied to instruments containing rosewood. 🙄
Anyway, it was well worth the wait. 😎
Picture 1: The B302
Picture 2: B301F fretless I had about 15 years ago.
Picture 3: B301 repaired headstock, sold to fund the 302.